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Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix
the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M.
and the guys at
GetSatisfaction.com
where they have "community powered support for Technorati".

Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape
delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they
pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday
listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.

Wankers.

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New Jersey spent $700,000 more to have road salt shipped from Maine to Port
Newark by barge than it would have cost had the federal government granted
a waiver allowing a foreign vessel to deliver the coveted cargo, the state
transportation commissioner said yesterday.

Shuttling 40,000 tons of salt over four trips by barge between Searsport,
Maine, and Port Newark will cost $1.2 million compared with the $500,000
New Jersey would have spent if the cargo ship Anastasia S. had been permitted
to take the load to New Jersey, Simpson said today after a meeting of the New
Jersey Turnpike Authority.

It was the same message Simpson, a close ally of Republican Gov. Chris
Christie, delivered on Monday after a special NJ Transit meeting.

"I've never been aggravated more in my life than about this salt issue,
because this is a no-brainer for government to fix," he said at that meeting.
"If we can't feel that it's in the public's interest to get salt down here,
then there's no hope for anything else, as far as I'm concerned."

With the Obama Administration, when there's a conflict between "the public
interest" and "union interests," the unions win, hands down, every time.

And the Jones Act exists to protect the maritime unions.

So to recap.

The good news is we got our road salt, which as, um, luck would have
it, is just in time because it's snowing again as I write this.

The bad news is it took 2 weeks and an extra 700 grand to get it here.